More from Kristin Houser (Page 22)

Genetics

Creating Genetically Modified Babies Is “Morally Permissible,” Says Ethics Committee

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

Manufacturer Confirms Installing Remote-Access Software on U.S. Voting Machines

By Kristin Houser

Boeing

SpaceX and Boeing Delays Could Cost NASA Access to the ISS

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The FDA Just Approved a Drug to Keep Us a Little Safer From Another Pandemic

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

Uber and Lyft Still Allow Racist Behavior, but Not as Much as Taxi Services

By Kristin Houser

Hacking

We Knew Russian Hackers Infiltrated Americans’ Inboxes. Now We Know How.

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

Hinge Is Using a New Algorithm to Identify Your “Most Compatible” Mate

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

We May Have Reached a Turning Point in the Opioid Crisis, Report Implies

By Kristin Houser

FCC

Have a Problem With Your Internet Provider? The FCC Doesn’t Want to Hear About It

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind Created a Test to Measure an AI’s Ability to Reason

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: AI Can Now Fix Your Grainy Photographs Without a “Clean” Reference

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Off-World

The Digest: Private Rocket Launches Are Already Causing Flight Delays

By Kristin Houser

Medical

The Digest: These Mind-Blowing Images of The Human Body Were Made By A New Kind of Scanner

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: Walmart Patents Tech for Eavesdropping on Workers

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: VR Treatment, Even Without a Therapist, Helps People Overcome Fear of Heights

By Kristin Houser

Blockchain

The Digest: A Wildlife Charity Is Auctioning off a CryptoKitty in a First-of-Its-Kind Fundraiser

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: Scientists Create New Cochlear Implants That Allow Gerbils to “Hear” Light

By Kristin Houser

Cryptocurrency

The Digest: More Than Half of ICO-Funded Startups Fail Within 4 Months, Study Says

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: Doctors Repair Infants’ Damaged Hearts With Experimental Procedure

By Kristin Houser

Fossil Fuels

The Digest: Removing Spent Underwater Oil Rigs Might Do More Harm Than Good

By Kristin Houser

Brain

The Digest: That Brain-Tingle Sensation Might Have Physical And Mental Benefits

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: Apps That Provide Benefits Might Actually Make the Gig Economy Sustainable

By Kristin Houser

Pollution

The Digest: Seattle Becomes the First Major U.S. City to Ban Plastic Straws

By Kristin Houser

Google

The Digest: The Next Telemarketer You Hang up on Might Be Google’s Duplex AI

By Kristin Houser

Self-Driving Vehicles

The Digest: Baidu’s Autonomous Buses Will Start Transporting Passengers in Japan Next Year

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: First Rhino Embryos Produced in a Lab Could Save Almost-Extinct Subspecies

By Kristin Houser

Moon

The Digest: Blue Origin Plans to Begin Colonizing the Moon No Later Than 2023

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: The World’s Smallest Surgical Robot Is Almost Ready for the Operating Room

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: This AI Analyzes Ash to Figure out the Cause of a Volcanic Eruption

By Kristin Houser

Facial recognition

The Digest: Facial Recognition Tech Is No Match for Juggalo Makeup

By Kristin Houser

Science & Energy

The Digest: A New Cloaking Approach Could Potentially Make Objects Invisible From Every Direction

By Kristin Houser

Mars

The Digest: 20 Mice Are Going to Space To Help Us Figure out How to Survive on Mars

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: Amazon Buys Online Pharmacy, Dives Deeper Into Healthcare Industry

By Kristin Houser

Data Privacy

The Digest: California Cracks Down on the Companies Harvesting Your Data

By Kristin Houser

Falcon

The Digest: SpaceX Just Launched a Last-of-Its-Kind Falcon Rocket

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: Amazon Needs More Delivery Companies and Wants You to Start Them

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: With AI, Forecasters Can More Accurately Predict Storms And Save Lives

By Kristin Houser

Facial recognition

New Facial Recognition Software Tracks and Protects Endangered Primates

By Kristin Houser

Advanced Transport

The Digest: Boeing’s Hypersonic Concept Jet Could Cut Flight Times by 85 Percent

By Kristin Houser

Robotics

The Digest: This Floating Robot DRAGON Can Change Shape Mid-Flight

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

The Digest: Five AI Algorithms Worked Together to Beat Humans at a Strategy Game

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

The Digest: New Report Details AT&T’s Role in NSA Spying Initiatives

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk

The Digest: Elon Musk Says Autopilot Is Getting a “Mad Max” Option

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: Tick Bites Have Made Thousands of Americans Allergic to Red Meat

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

The Digest: A Marijuana-Derived Medication Is Now Approved For Sale in the U.S.

By Kristin Houser

Renewable Energy

The Digest: China Has (Probably) Been Pumping a Banned Gas Into the Atmosphere

By Kristin Houser

Future Society

Don’t Mess With the Musk: Elon Sues Ex-Employee for Spilling Tesla Secrets

By Kristin Houser

Prosthetics and Devices

Electronic Skin Lets Amputees Feel Pain Through Their Prosthetics

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

Many Common Psychiatric Disorders Share a Genetic Link, Study Finds

By Kristin Houser

Privacy

Four Major Phone Carriers Just Did Something to Actually Protect Your Privacy

By Kristin Houser

Military

MIT Creates “Artificial Blubber” to Keep Navy SEALs Warm

By Kristin Houser

Tesla

In an Effort to Speed up Production, Tesla Is Assembling Model 3s in a Giant Tent

By Kristin Houser

Prosthetics and Devices

CRISPR Doesn’t Cause Unintended Mutations in Monkeys, Study Finds

By Kristin Houser

Prosthetics and Devices

Biohacker Who Implanted Transit Chip in Hand Evades Fine

By Kristin Houser

Meta

Think Deleting Your Facebook Profile Is Hard? Try Deleting Your Genomic Data.

By Kristin Houser

Mars

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

By Kristin Houser

Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Ether Aren’t Securities, Says SEC Official

By Kristin Houser

Health & Medicine

This Robot Is Here to Draw Your Blood

By Kristin Houser

Prosthetics and Devices

UC Berkeley Finally Scores a Win With Two CRISPR Patents

By Kristin Houser

NASA

NASA: Don’t Start Mourning the Opportunity Rover Just Yet

By Kristin Houser

Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s 2017 Surge Was the Result of Manipulation, Experts Say

By Kristin Houser

Off-World

Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way

By Kristin Houser

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Will “Enable Full Self-Driving Features” in August. Here’s What That Actually Means.

By Kristin Houser

Cancer

CRISPR Could Help Us Cure Diseases. It Could Also Cause Cancer.

By Kristin Houser